Australian Telegrams.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3059, 4 December 1878, Page 2

Australian Telegrams.

(Peb s.sl Tabaetxa at the Bluff.)

(Pek Press ' Agency.)

Melbourne.

The Embassy question has .been the absorbing topic of the week. Efforts have been made in various directions to frustrate theEm ba ssy.but the Chief Secretary appears to have set his. mind upon it. At Geelong on Monday night Mr Berry was unable to : obtain ,a, .hearing, and a! most noisy meeting toot place, the Chairman giving as theVejsiilt a slight majority in favor of the Embassy, but at a, meeting at the Town Hall yesterday, afternoon, at which about 3000 persons were present, a resolution by a majority of four to one was carried against the Embassy. The Attorney-General was present, and attempted to sneak, but the meeting would, hot allow him. The meeting was very noisy. Much feeling is shown over the question. .. , ; . ■•* In the Council' yesterday Mr Cuthberfcson's resolutions in favor of reform, that the Appropriation Bill shall not contain any disputed matter being included it be placed in a separate bill and both. Houses be dissolved on the question, were carried by 18 to 7, The resolutions were;;then forwarded to the Assembly. ; . j Mr Munro, member for Carlton, held a meeting last.night, when a resolution was passed that no Embassy should proceed to England until the country had. been consulted. . ' Business in the Assembly during the last few days has been characterised by great disorder, and very little business has been done. Since; the prorogation * was announced and the Appropriation Bill was passed very little has been done. T.he Reform Club, started under the auspices of the Berry Ministry, has collapsed, and the proprietor has been sued in the County Court for money expended on account of the Club. There is nothing fresh regarding the Mansfield bushrangers. A number of police are still out pursuing, but with the exception that the horses of the murdered, constables have been recovered near the scene of the murders, nothing has been discovered. ' ■ . The seamen's strike in Sydney affects this port, inasmuch as the boats of the A.B.N. Co. are unable to make their trips, to Melbourne. The net profits over the last Spring Eace Meeting amounted to£7llo, larger than any previous year.. Very, great' improvements'have still to be made on the ground. ' Mr Xyster has engaged an Opera Company at Home for the Colonies. They are to leave Home jn January. •